Word: shocks
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...year, or just half the U.S. rate. Europeans who in the mid-'70s looked on the U.S. as a nation weakened by Viet Nam, Watergate and economic stagnation now marvel at the fact that Americans have created 13.2 million new jobs in the decade following the first oil shock in 1973, while Europe has lost 1.5 million. Adding to the malaise is Europe's realization that it is losing ground to Japan and other East Asian nations in the competition for world markets. The old Continent's problem has aptly been diagnosed as "Eurosclerosis...
...West Germany). During their first year, the German teachers, like their American counterparts, will be required to pass the teacher-certification test. The Germans will pay their own way to the U.S., although local districts will help them find housing. Some Georgia educators worry about culture shock, since German teachers could be disconcerted by disorderly American students and by nonacademic duties like lunchroom monitoring. Says Bob Adams, personnel specialist for Atlanta schools, who has hired foreign-born teachers in the past: "They find it very frustrating in terms of discipline, the American attitude toward education, and the role of teacher...
...hundreds of reporters to check every book we publish. We start from the assumption that it's the author's book. If it isn't libelous, the weight of responsibility is to let the author tell his story." Korda's candor may come as a shock to laymen who think of newspapers as being edited in a hurry, with facts assembled as best they can be on short notice, while a book is slowly gestated, relentlessly checked, permanently bound and meant to endure. But the rush is on at a number of publishers...
...latest worries about Latin debt came as the U.S. banking system was still recovering from the shock of the near collapse in May of Continental Illinois Bank. The bank revealed last week the stringent terms that it had been forced to accept to receive an emergency $1.5 billion loan from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The FDIC insisted that it have the power to fire Continental directors, that the bank suspend its 50?-per-share quarterly dividend payment and that the bank's officials refrain from giving themselves large severance bonuses, known as golden parachutes, in the event another...
...West Germany collected the matériel, erased all the U.S. markings, then sent it to a CIA installation near Stuttgart. There the mines were wrapped in special shock-absorbent material and packed in lightweight, waterproof, steel shipping boxes. The crates were stuffed with telephone wires and batteries; their contents were described as telephone equipment for a religious organization...